Agricultural Science honours student, Oliver Gales was awarded the 2020 Rhodes Scholarship for Tasmania, which he describes as a “massive honour and privilege”.
He is the first ever Agricultural Science Tassie Rhodes Scholar.
The Rhodes Scholarship is a globally-prestigious award that recognises academic excellence as well as the recipient’s extracurricular pursuits.
With the scholarship, Oliver will travel to the UK to do a masters in development studies at the famed University of Oxford, investigating policy and governance in developing countries.